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[Q] installing a custom ROM?

So i've been looking all over the development forum.. and i can't find any instructions to install a rom, the only so-called instructions i found was "Use xRecovery" herp derp.. =/
I have the "2.3.2 CM Legend 31 v0.3" one
I have everything working, Root explorer.. xrecovery.. BusyBox
absolutely everything, i tried extracting the cm7-0.3.rar and compressing it into an update.zip for it to work on xRecovery, but it still wont work.
The files inside the rom are: system.img, cache.img, data.img, nandroid.md5.
This is what it shows when i try to install it
-- Install from SD card...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing Update...
And then it quickly closes and goes back to the main menu..
Any help would be appreciated.

x8brah said:
So i've been looking all over the development forum.. and i can't find any instructions to install a rom, the only so-called instructions i found was "Use xRecovery" herp derp.. =/
I have the "2.3.2 CM Legend 31 v0.3" one
I have everything working, Root explorer.. xrecovery.. BusyBox
absolutely everything, i tried extracting the cm7-0.3.rar and compressing it into an update.zip for it to work on xRecovery, but it still wont work.
The files inside the rom are: system.img, cache.img, data.img, nandroid.md5.
any help would be appreciated
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you need to follow these instructions-
1. Extract the downloaded ROM.
2. Ensure there are 4 files in a folder(name it as you wish, or you can simply take the extracted folder!).
3. Make a folder in your SD card with name "xrecovery"(without quotes)
4. Make a sub-folder "backup"(without quotes)
5. Place the folder in the backup folder( /sdcard/xrecovery/backup)
6. Boot into xRecovery.
7. Goto Backup and Restore.
8. Goto Restore.
9. There you will see your folder name.
10. Just select and press Yes.
Done!
Cheers!

mohakrastogi said:
you need to follow these instructions-
1. Extract the downloaded ROM.
2. Ensure there are 4 files in a folder(name it as you wish, or you can simply take the extracted folder!).
3. Make a folder in your SD card with name "xrecovery"(without quotes)
4. Make a sub-folder "backup"(without quotes)
5. Place the folder in the backup folder( /sdcard/xrecovery/backup)
6. Boot into xRecovery.
7. Goto Backup and Restore.
8. Goto Restore.
9. There you will see your folder name.
10. Just select and press Yes.
Done!
Cheers!
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Kudos to you my friend.. thanks a lot it works perfectly =)

Ok now i have a bigger problem.. i can't access my SD card on the computer!!
only working via file managers :S
is there any way to move files to it using the android SDK? (Yes the android sdk/adb commands work i tried installing an app with it and it worked)

x8brah said:
Ok now i have a bigger problem.. i can't access my SD card on the computer!!
only working via file managers :S
is there any way to move files to it using the android SDK? (Yes the android sdk/adb commands work i tried installing an app with it and it worked)
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you flashed the rom? there is still a bug with USB Mounting.

mohakrastogi said:
you flashed the rom? there is still a bug with USB Mounting.
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why yes i did, EPIC FAIL.. lol
I assume im going to need to put my official ROM on the SD card again with a memory reader?
EDIT: Disregard that.. used flashtool to go back to 1.6, no problems now.

i installed 2.3.2 CM Legend 31 v0.3 and it works ok for me.
after a while, it says "Login to Google Talk failed, check if you have chat
available"
i know this is not the problem of this rom.
i google the message, and find other roms may have the same problem.
but this message is annoying.
dose anyone know the solution??
thank you for my bad english.

[Q] Droid Pro Update sucks

OK, I tried to update the phone 6 times now.
The normal way always ended with "update not installed".
I tried with the Recovery Mode ... also no luck.
I reset the phone to factory data and tried to update again... also no luck.
It always ended after checking "/system/app/BackupAssistanceClient.apk" ... installation aborted.
The zip file is ok, no problems....
Any hint for me?

These instructions can help and more info about the update.
link
Edit: Link problem
Edit 2: Link been fix

I guess you uninstalled the program BackupAssistanceClient.apk. We must throw back the program. You can take them out of the old firmware http://www.mediafire.com/?4450xiqnxngzq.
You'll need two programs: SBF-ReCalc 1.2.9.1 and Diskinternals Linux_Reader
First you understand the firmware to the code groups. You will need a group number 39.
The second program allows you to get out of the code of the folder system.
To do this:
1. Install and run the prog.
2. Click the menu item Drivers Mount Image.
3. Were 39 group, and click Mount. In the program window will appear system (Linux native Volume 1) with all its contents.
4. Select the desired item and right-click choose Save, and then follow the instructions.
5. That's all you have files you need.
The original manual, and links to programs http://forum.motofan.ru/index.php?showtopic=1727864

Motostigr, you are my hero
You were right. I deleted a few programs and that was the reason for the failed update.
As most of the time the failure is sitting in front of the pc/phone
Thank you!
Maik

Hi, after i get the 2 apk and odex files, what i do to install them into phone ?

edop84 said:
Hi, after i get the 2 apk and odex files, what i do to install them into phone ?
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copied to / system / app /

My problem is that I have 3.8.7 version of droid pro firmware and i restore 2.26 version of apk and odex and they fails, not installing.... ... There is anyone that have this files ? Version 3.8.7 ?

edop84 said:
My problem is that I have 3.8.7 version of droid pro firmware and i restore 2.26 version of apk and odex and they fails, not installing.... ... There is anyone that have this files ? Version 3.8.7 ?
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What files do you want?

motostigr said:
What files do you want?
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/system/app/BackupAssistanceClient.apk
/system/app/BackupAssistanceClient.odex
/system/app/BuaContactAdapter.apk
/system/app/BuaContactAdapter.odex
thaks

edop84 said:
/system/app/BackupAssistanceClient.apk
/system/app/BackupAssistanceClient.odex
/system/app/BuaContactAdapter.apk
/system/app/BuaContactAdapter.odex
thaks
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Remembered that spread all the programs here http://forum.motofan.ru/index.php?s=&showtopic=179231&view=findpost&p=1591178
(see link at the end of post)

motostigr said:
Remembered that spread all the programs here
(see link at the end of post)
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Great !!! !! Thank you so much !!!!

[DEV][20.11.2011] Android Gingerbread SIP over 3g for (probably) every GB based rom

Here is a bit of why I wrote this manual:
Back at December 2010 Paul from modaco found how to enable sip over 3g for the gingerbread native client, his original thread is here:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/327770-using-gingerbread-internet-calling-sip-without-wifi/
For chefs it is probably straight forward how to use this tip, but for me I always begged for cookers to include this in their roms usually they didn't even replay to my request, so I investigated this, and here is very easy way to enable this feature.
This guide assumes you are a little familiar with changing files on your ROM.
*I take no responsibility for this guide, use it at your own risk
So, what we are doing is modifying the framework-res.apk from from our framework directory.
We need:
apktools from here: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
Two files are needed, this: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/detail?name=apktool1.4.1.tar.bz2&can=2&q=
And this: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/detail?name=apktool-install-windows-r04-brut1.tar.bz2&can=2&q=
(You can also do this for Linux and Mac, this guide will use windows)
Take the framework-res.apk from your ROMS zip file inside /system/framework directory.
How its done:
Extract both files that you downloaded to c:\apktools (can be any dir...)
You should have 3 files.
Copy the framework-res.apk to the same directory: c:\apktools
start --> run --> cmd
c:
cd \apktools
apktools d framework-res.apk temp
Now a folder named temp will appear named temp
inside temp, edit the file: C:\apktools\temp\res\values\bools.xml
I use notepad++, search for a line:
<bool name="config_sip_wifi_only">true</bool>th
change in the line the "true" into "false"
save the file.
go back to cmd
c:
cd \apktools
apktools b temp temp.apk
Now rename your original framework-res.apk to framework-res.apk.zip
open it with winrar/winzip/7zip it will open like regular archive.
take the file that was created by the build process:
C:\apktools\temp\build\apk\resources.arsc
Use this file to replace the file inside the archive of framerwork-res.apk.zip (overwriting the original, inside the zip)
rename the file back to framework-res.apk
And now you have a sip over 3g enabled framework-res.apk.
There are few options to push this file, easiest is just replace it in your ROM zip and flush the ROM, you need to wipe cache and dalvik cache.
There are other ways to push this to your rom but I won't discuss them here.
I used this on stock roms, AOSP roms, MIUI roms and Sense roms, worked for me on all, if you find a roms it doesn't work on please report.
Thats it, its actually quite easy.

You are Awesome! Thank you for posting this. I just setup my phone with this and it works great.

Great Process, a few little remarks
Shalom,
This is a great process tutorial and within 15 minutes I flashed my HTC Sensation to support Internet calls on 3G/4G, while before it was WiFi ONLY.
So now, no need to have any cellular minutes purchased, have DATA have LIFE.
Remarks:
1. Have only 2 files. You mentioned 1 download and then 2 more. The 1st is duplicated withing the 2.
2. The BAT file is apktool.bat and not apktools.bat.
Other then that, SWEEET.
Toda Raba.
Easy
---------- Post added at 04:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 AM ----------
HTC Sensation T-Mobile.
Forgot to mention earlier.
Thanks.

HI
tryed not working stoped at temp file cretion is showing an eror cant go further plz help

Does this change your phone to use 3g to make calls? If so that is excellent.
Sent from my Sabotaged Droid Incredible 2.

Thanks, but why don't we use SIP third-party such as Sipdroid, 3CXPhone...? I think they are easy to use.

Nice work , What about Xperia Lines, will there appear 3G video calling button ?

I tried on Wet Dreams 1.3.0 for Atrig 4G and didn't works (Didn't show SIP Calling option)... maybe my mistake or isn't working with Moto's 2.3.6 build. But I asked to be added by the chef! Thanks for this tip!

If SIP options are not present in your Settings.APK it may have been disabled by the carrier.
The solution is to place the proper permissions file into /system/etc/permissions/ which will enable SIP overall on your device, then of course to this fix as well.
Solution found in various other places, just thought I'd add it to this thread since the thread is linked from the homepage.

Nice, surprisingly easy, almost to much so lol

lotherius said:
If SIP options are not present in your Settings.APK it may have been disabled by the carrier.
The solution is to place the proper permissions file into /system/etc/permissions/ which will enable SIP overall on your device, then of course to this fix as well.
Solution found in various other places, just thought I'd add it to this thread since the thread is linked from the homepage.
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Thanx.
But it didnt work for me, and still not seeing sip settings.
I plased the attached file in system/etc/permissions, rebooted.
Also tried to fix permissions, and still didnt work.
Please Help
Verizon Motorola Droid 3
Stock deodexed Rom, Android 2.3.4

BTLINU said:
Thanx.
But it didnt work for me, and still not seeing sip settings.
I plased the attached file in system/etc/permissions, rebooted.
Also tried to fix permissions, and still didnt work.
Please Help
Verizon Motorola Droid 3
Stock deodexed Rom, Android 2.3.4
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Then the options probably just aren't there in your carrier's Rom. They were present in my LG Rom, after I pushed the permissions file. However, when I tried to use SIP, it would force close as soon as the call connected... something else missing.
In my case and yours, the answer is to use SipDroid from the market.

Pls any guide on how to do this in ICC ROMs

CM7 | Test: downgrade radio driver and baseband to fix connection bug

Due to repeated radio connection freezes I tried using an old radio version from stock Froyo plus corresponding baseband files. So far so good, I do have call connection.
I used this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459470
I failed trying to create my first update.zip with the baseband files. I got some strange error 7 or so... used root explorer to copy/past files and changed permissions.
Question:
Permissions have to be 644 right?
How about the owner? Do I have to change it and to which owner?
/edit: I added the files I used, maybe someone else wants to try as well.

measel said:
Due to repeated radio connection freezes I tried using an old radio version from stock Froyo plus corresponding baseband files. So far so good, I do have call connection.
I used this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459470
I failed trying to create my first update.zip with the baseband files. I got some strange error 7 or so... used root explorer to copy/past files and changed permissions.
Question:
Permissions have to be 644 right?
How about the owner? Do I have to change it and to which owner?
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What exactly does 'old radio version from stock Froyo plus corresponding baseband files' mean? What files did you replace?
The 'Central europe Hong Kong, Taiwan, ... 4.5.1-85' setting in baseband switcher should exactly match the stock German Froyo baseband files (I've compared MD5 sums).

I didn't know the baseband is the same.
Well I extracted CG45.smg from official DACH froyo: JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_177-003_BLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_PDS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTDACH_P014_A009_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf
and flashed it.
And because I read I had to use suiting baseband files I got them from an old Nandroid backup and placed them on the bp_nvm_default folder.
Sorry if that is a bad idea but I really want to fix the connection bug and since switching basebands or builds didn't help at all I thought that might be a chance.
I confess: My knowledge is VERY limited.
/edit: Reason for this action was that my buddy has the same phone with stock eclair and his baseband is totally different from CM7. That's when I thought: Uhm maybe it helps to swap the radio drivers.
BTW: Log has got quite a view RIL warnings.

Questions go in the Q&A section

not only a question, info too! but well...

well, my test is over. yesterday I had the radio bug again. so that wasn't the solution.

Sound drivers problem

Okay, now i have three cases with my phone when the phone boots up
1.Hello moto boot animation with sound
In this case my phone works fine (only for few minutes though )
2.Hello moto boot animation without sound
In this, i cant hear any audio from my phone speaker , have to put on my headphones even to answer a call
3.No hello moto animation
Now, its gone, i couldnt use any app related to sound, no music,no calls nothing related to sound, ive to reboot my phone until any of the first two cases to come.
Model:XT1643
Variant:India
Current Rom: nougat 7.0.0(hope ive flashed the perfect stock)
Note: Ive unlocked my bootloader, this problem appeared after some good 20 days
Things that i already did:
1.Factory reset
2.Flashed RR,CM and some other roms
3.Flashed vegito and other kernels
4.Relocked the bootloader
5.Flashed many stock roms
6.All primitives(safe mode,factory mode,clearing cache,wiping dalvik)
7.Saw the logs and found something like
/proc/asound/card---- state failed no such directory found
Now im on my stock rom with bootloader locked.Till yesterday i was in case 2 but phone switched off due to low batter and when i power it on now my phone is back to the worst case 3.
Please help me , i hope xda forums got many android experts and developers

From Case 1 and 2.
I have seen this similar problem (on old Nokia phone), on my phone that happened because of water damage, few drops of water went to jack and it started to show "connected headphone" so it stopped playing music through speaker but worked fine with earphones..
It's rainy season, can you confirm this?
About 3rd case,
it iss un-understandable, can you tell more about that?
Also you have filled half post with what you have done to solve this, i would suggest you to write condition of phone before this happened, what actually you did before this problem started ? This will help others to understand problem..
Edit: about error in log,
Are you still on unlocked bootloader ?
Can you tell, (use any root browser / file manager)
Is there anything in /proc/asound/ ?
In my phone 6 files and card folder (shortcut to msm8952*****) contains other 200+ files...

____Mdd said:
From Case 1 and 2.
I have seen this similar problem (on old Nokia phone), on my phone that happened because of water damage, few drops of water went to jack and it started to show "connected headphone" so it stopped playing music through speaker but worked fine with earphones..
It's rainy season, can you confirm this?
About 3rd case,
it iss un-understandable, can you tell more about that?
Also you have filled half post with what you have done to solve this, i would suggest you to write condition of phone before this happened, what actually you did before this problem started ? This will help others to understand problem..
Edit: about error in log,
Are you still on unlocked bootloader ?
Can you tell, (use any root browser / file manager)
Is there anything in /proc/asound/ ?
In my phone 6 files and card folder (shortcut to msm8952*****) contains other 200+ files...
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3rd case i mean moto boot involves
big M moto logo and then hello world and then some animation with sound
in the 3rd case only Moto logo will be shown for some seconds and phone boots up
And yeah, i can confirm that my phone's never been wet
the problem started when i tried rooting my phone, i successfully unlocked the bootloader and flashed wrong supersu file(I was a noob in this stuff back then).ended up in boot loop,Flashed some stock rom available in the net and phone worked perfectly for some days before this problem begun.
Since i dont have root access, i guess i couldnt access /proc/asound/
and now i have a locked bootloader
thanks for your time on replying my post
Warm regards.

Can you try to re-unlock it ?
[It's DARK here, i will not check any threads now, but suggest you to check threads in Q&A section about re-unlocking bootloader after updating to latest firmware, i don't wish any buddy's phone gets damaged, so please check]
Then see /proc/asound/
I will provid one from mine xt1643 if yours is something wrong..
Another question: does this happen with custom ROM too ?

Yeah sure, I will reunlock the bootloader,
Do I have to root my phone or reunlocking is sufficient to see system files?
And one more question
In twrp recovery I found fix se Linux contexts
Can I do that? Safe to do ? Does it have any chance of solving my problem?
Im quite experienced in locking and unlocking bl
I'll do it tomorrow and post the result here.
And yeah same with custom Roms also

Facing the same problem too
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g4-plus/help/audio-moto-g4-plus-completely-zero-sound-t3637714

Just unlocked boot loader and rooted so, these are the files in my /proc/asound directory .
So the card folder and the shortcut is missing..please send me

Karthik Veenam said:
7.Saw the logs and found something like
/proc/asound/card---- state failed no such directory found
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As here log said, "card" folder is missing in asound folder (your SS)
Check my SS, i am little confused about sharing card folder, because there is shortcut folder msm8952***** that directs to same card folder.

____Mdd said:
As here log said, "card" folder is missing in asound folder (your SS)
Check my SS, i am little confused about sharing card folder, because there is shortcut folder msm8952***** that directs to same card folder.
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Can you mail me the entire proc folder?

i have taken it with different methods,
1st: i took flashable zip of /proc/asound with "zipME" app,
here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyVnhyME8yREc2TXc/view?usp=drivesdk
2nd: copied with file manager, you have to unzip and paste into /proc/asound/
Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyQjJfNFlvLTM0Y28/view?usp=drivesdk
PS: i have taken whole asound folder, i suggest you to 1st copy card folder only and see..

____Mdd said:
i have taken it with different methods,
1st: i took flashable zip of /proc/asound with "zipME" app,
here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyVnhyME8yREc2TXc/view?usp=drivesdk
2nd: copied with file manager, you have to unzip and paste into /proc/asound/
Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyQjJfNFlvLTM0Y28/view?usp=drivesdk
PS: i have taken whole asound folder, i suggest you to 1st copy card folder only and see..
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Can you suggest me a good root browser for doing the copy paste operations? Everything sucks in my phone.
And thanks a ton

____Mdd said:
i have taken it with different methods,
1st: i took flashable zip of /proc/asound with "zipME" app,
here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyVnhyME8yREc2TXc/view?usp=drivesdk
2nd: copied with file manager, you have to unzip and paste into /proc/asound/
Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyQjJfNFlvLTM0Y28/view?usp=drivesdk
PS: i have taken whole asound folder, i suggest you to 1st copy card folder only and see..
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Bro none of the root browser can paste successfully.
So the other choice is flashing the zip directly in twrp ryt?

Karthik Veenam said:
Can you suggest me a good root browser for doing the copy paste operations? Everything sucks in my phone.
And thanks a ton
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I am using X-Plore since symbian.. LoL. It provides good facilities, but for new user it may be confusing as it has dual pane view and stuff..
But i have seen most of users prefer ES file explorer and solid explorer... You can try them, and see what makes your work easy..

____Mdd said:
i have taken it with different methods,
1st: i took flashable zip of /proc/asound with "zipME" app,
here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyVnhyME8yREc2TXc/view?usp=drivesdk
2nd: copied with file manager, you have to unzip and paste into /proc/asound/
Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXhUjfgNMqyQjJfNFlvLTM0Y28/view?usp=drivesdk
PS: i have taken whole asound folder, i suggest you to 1st copy card folder only and see..
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Not enough space in directory(root) so do u advice me to flash in twrp?

Karthik Veenam said:
Not enough space in directory(root) so do u advice me to flash in twrp?
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Try and report..

I flashed but nothing happened and the files were not added I'm the directory..the directory still remains the same
Are you sure u gave the correct directory to the flashable zip?

Karthik Veenam said:
I flashed but nothing happened and the files were not added I'm the directory..the directory still remains the same
Are you sure u gave the correct directory to the flashable zip?
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Yes those were taken form correct directory, but surprisingly those are getting overwriten at some time events, i just restarted my device and you can see it's date/time is close to clock (ss attached)... It's something issue with your device that it's not getting written..

Yeah, but copy pasting the missing folder will atleast work as a temp fix,
Can't I do anything to do that? I mean copy paste in the directory
And yeah even my 6 files are modifying with time, but those folder and shortcut is missing

It's full of surprise, can you check that with xplore (available on playstore)
TWRP is also not showing those folder but x-plore does..

____Mdd said:
It's full of surprise, can you check that with xplore (available on playstore)
TWRP is also not showing those folder but x-plore does..
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It gives me the error " some files couldn't be copied"